Updates: Israel kills more Palestinians in Gaza, bombs southern Lebanon

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We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a look at the day’s top developments:

• Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has denounced a wave of Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon as a “heinous political crime” as at least one person was killed and nine others injured in the attacks.
• The UN says Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect last month, as Palestinians across the enclave continue to suffer from a lack of food, shelter and other supplies.
• More than 10,000 Palestinians remain buried under the rubble in Gaza, according to the National Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza, which described the territory as “the world’s largest mass grave”.
• Kazakhstan says it will join the US-brokered Abraham Accords, normalising ties with Israel. The move is largely symbolic as the Central Asian nation has had diplomatic relations with Israel for decades.
• The UN Security Council has voted to remove sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet US President Trump at the White House next week.

Police in the UK say six people have been arrested at the match between Aston Villa and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv in Birmingham tonight.

West Midlands Police said three of those were arrested for “racially aggravated public offences” and another was detained for breach of the peace.

Police had deployed hundreds of officers ahead of the UEFA Europa League match three weeks after Aston Villa barred travelling Israeli club supporters from attending due to threats of violence.

About 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators waved flags outside the stadium while about 40 people also turned up for a smaller pro-Israel counterprotest.

A campaign to ban Israeli teams from European and global football has gained momentum amid the country’s war on Gaza, with rights advocates stressing that more than 400 Palestinian footballers have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past two years.

Israel’s air strikes on Lebanon today are seen as a violation of the ceasefire deal agreed to last year with Hezbollah. See more in the video below.

The London university where British political commentator and journalist Sami Hamdi completed his studies has called for “full transparency and due process” regarding his detention in the US.

SOAS University of London said in a statement it was “deeply concerned” by reports of Hamdi’s detention, adding that “there is no indication that Mr Hamdi has violated any laws”.

“We urge the US authorities to ensure full transparency and due process in Mr Hamdi’s case, and to uphold his fundamental right to freedom of expression and movement.”

Hamdi, 35, was stopped at San Francisco international airport in California on October 26 and detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Hamdi’s detention as “a blatant affront to free speech”, attributing his arrest to his criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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Israel’s prison system is a “network of torture camps for Palestinians”, says Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, amid upheaval over leaked footage showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman facility last year.

“The documented violence at Sde Teiman, and other incidents exposed by investigative journalists and human rights groups, reflect a broader reality: Israeli prison facilities have been turned into torture camps for Palestinians since 7 October 2023,” B’Tselem said.

In a social media post, the rights group noted that it had reviewed testimonies from 55 Palestinian men and women held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities after Israel’s war on Gaza began and were later released.

“Their testimonies reveal an institutional policy of abuse: deliberate humiliation, severe violence, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care and religious practice,” it said, adding that at least 80 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli custody in the last two years.

Last week, Israeli Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned after admitting she had provided the media with footage showing soldiers committing severe acts of abuse against a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention camp.

The documented violence at Sde… pic.twitter.com/vhnDEQ9A1F

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) November 6, 2025

The council has voted to remove sanctions on Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Syrian president who is due to meet Trump at the White House on Monday.

The US-drafted resolution, which also lifted sanctions on Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab, received 14 votes in favour. China abstained.

“The US really wanted to push this through before al-Sharaa visits Washington next week,” Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reported from UN headquarters in New York.

Al-Sharaa previously headed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed opposition group that led the uprising that ousted Syria’s longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December of last year.

Formerly known as the Nusra Front, HTS was al-Qaeda’s official wing in Syria until breaking ties in 2016. The group had been on a UN sanctions list since May 2014.

The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory has condemned Israel’s continued deadly attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.

“In the wasteland of rubble in Gaza, Israel keeps killing Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese wrote in a social media post.

She noted that, to justify its attacks despite the Gaza ceasefire, the Israeli government is using the “baffling excuse” that Palestinians have crossed the so-called “yellow line” where Israeli forces are stationed in the enclave.

“For Palestinians ‘peace’ is a neverending bluff,” she wrote.

As we’ve been reporting, more than 240 Palestinians have been killed in the Strip since the ceasefire came into effect last month, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has denounced today’s wave of Israeli air strikes as a “heinous political crime”.

“What Israel committed today in southern Lebanon constitutes a full-fledged crime under international humanitarian law, which criminalizes the targeting, terrorising, and forced displacement of civilians,” Aoun said in a statement.

“Nearly a year has passed since the ceasefire took effect, and during that period Israel has spared no effort in showing its rejection of any negotiated settlement between the two countries,” Aoun added.

The Lebanese army also condemned the Israeli attacks as “a continuation of the enemy’s destructive approach aimed at undermining Lebanon’s stability, expanding devastation in the south, and prolonging the war to maintain the threat against the Lebanese people”.

Tensions have been mounting in southern Lebanon for weeks, with the Israeli army intensifying near-daily air raids despite its November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah.

The Israeli army has killed more than 4,000 people and injured nearly 17,000 in its attacks on Lebanon, which began in October 2023 and turned into a full-scale offensive in September 2024.

The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has called on Israel to immediately stop its attacks in the area after today’s intensified assault on several southern towns.

UNIFIL said in a statement that the bombardment violates UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel and tasked the peacekeepers with serving as an observation force in the area.

“They come as the Lebanese Armed Forces are undertaking operations to control unauthorized weapons and infrastructure in the south Litani area,” UNIFIL said of Israel’s strikes.

“Any military action, especially on such a destructive scale, threatens the safety of civilians and undermines the progress being made toward a political and diplomatic solution.”

It also called on Lebanese actors “to refrain from any response that could inflame the situation further”.

Today, UNIFIL peacekeepers observed multiple Israeli airstrikes in Tayr Dibbah, Taibe, and Ayta al Jabal, within our area of operations in south Lebanon.

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) November 6, 2025

The US president has told reporters that Israel’s military attack on Iran in June was “very, very powerful”.

“I was very much in charge of that,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “When Israel attacked Iran first … that was a great day for Israel because that attack did more damage than the rest of them put together.”

The Israeli military launched a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear, military and civilian sites on June 13, killing more than 600 Iranians and injuring thousands more over 12 days.

When Israel began its devastating assault on Iran, Washington was quick to distance itself from the attack. But Trump has been increasingly taking credit for the outcome of the war, which subsequently saw the US bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities.

That’s according to the National Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza, which described the enclave as “the world’s largest mass grave”.

In a statement, the committee said thousands of victims remain under the ruins of their houses, denied a dignified burial due to the vast destruction and lack of equipment needed to retrieve their bodies.

It condemned the inaction of international and humanitarian organisations, and urged the international community to take urgent steps to locate the missing, recover the bodies, and ensure that the victims’ human and legal rights are respected.

The Israeli army has announced that it has concluded this series of violent air strikes on several targets in southern Lebanon.

The justification of course being Israel’s accusation that Hezbollah is rearming, regrouping, reorganising in south Lebanon and that the Lebanese government is dragging its feet, it is not disarming Hezbollah as Israel demands.

The cabinet meeting tonight is discussing possibilities of further escalation, briefing the ministers on what Israel views as Hezbollah’s reorganisation.

That rhetoric, that tone, that we’ve been hearing for a few days now is only escalating even though the Israeli army says that for now, this round is over.

Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has been speaking to reporters at UN headquarters in New York City.

Here’s some what he said about Gaza:

• Continued detonations of residential buildings have been reported daily in multiple areas where the Israeli military remains deployed.
• Israeli military strikes near or east of the so-called “yellow line” where Israeli forces are stationed also continue to be reported.
• People have moved more than 680,000 times from southern to northern Gaza since the onset of the ceasefire last month, while nearly 113,000 other movements have been reported from western to eastern Khan Younis.
• However, UN partners say that many displaced people have reported a desire to remain where they are due to widespread destruction, a lack of alternatives and continued uncertainty about safety and services in their home communities.
• Since the ceasefire, the UN and partners have distributed cash assistance to more than 55,000 households, which is primarily being spent on food such as grains, vegetables and pulses, as well as to repay debts and buy hygiene items and medicines.
• Since the ceasefire, Israeli authorities have rejected 107 requests for the entry of relief materials, including blankets, winter clothes and tools, and material to maintain and operate water, sanitation and hygiene services. Almost 90 percent of these rejected requests were from more than 330 local and international NGOs.

A Palestinian child has been injured after Israeli settlers attacked homes in the Khallet al-Natsh area of eastern Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

The child, identified as Adam Hijazi al-Shantir, sustained facial injuries after settlers threw stones at Palestinian houses. He was transferred to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Settler attacks against Palestinians have become increasingly frequent across the West Bank, particularly during the olive harvest season.

Rights groups say such assaults, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces, include beatings, vandalism, and the destruction of farmland and homes.

The UN has repeatedly warned that the scale and impunity of these attacks are fuelling further displacement and violence.

We have not had any confirmation yet from the White House on the name of the country that is expected to join as another signatory to the Abraham Accords.

What we do know, is that there have been very strong rumours, that have been reported as far back as August, when Azerbaijan was one of the countries that was named.

The latest country that has been bandied about is Kazakhstan, and there’s a reason why: The US president is this evening, here in Washington … hosting five Central Asian countries and their leaders. He will be talking to them about how to circumvent China and acquire rare earth minerals for things like electric vehicles in the defence industry.

It is expected that Kazakhstan can also be that country that the Middle East envoy is referencing as being the latest country to join the Abraham Accords.

What is important to note is that it already has formal relations with Israel, as far back as 1992. It even has an embassy … in Israel.

This would formalise that relationship and would also allow Israel to turn the page on a negative image it has had as a result of the Gaza war – which seems to be one of the White House’s goals, in addition to furthering the Abraham Accords themselves.

The Palestinian group says Israel’s strikes on southern Lebanon have targeted unarmed civilians and constitute a war crime.

In a statement shared on Telegram, Hamas leader Ali Baraka expressed Hamas’s “full solidarity” with Lebanon, “calling for unity to confront the aggression and halt the occupation’s crimes against civilians”.

Baraka urged the UN, as well as Arab and Muslim countries to hold Israeli leaders accountable and stop the country’s attacks.